St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
Spring 1 information sheet for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Reception Literacy, Communication &
Language
We will:
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practise writing and reading our
names
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Continue to learn new sounds in
‘Read Write Inc’
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practise blending the sounds to
read words
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Reading a range of books related
to our new topic
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practise using our sounds to form
simple words
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writing words and forming captions
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Role-playing stories and asking
and answering lots of questions related
to them
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Share our experiences from
home,using our ‘what I did at home
sheet’
Nursery Literacy, Communication and
Language
We will:
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draw pictures with greater detail e.g
eyes nose mouth legs tail
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answer simple questions about a
shared story.
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write our own name (copy from a
card)
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to say “Good morning Mrs…” every
morning (without needing reminded)
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join in with some repetitive parts of
fairy tales e.g “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll
blow your house down!” “Not by the hair
on my chinny chin chin”
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listening to and reciting nursery
rhymes remembering the rhyming
words (different one each week)
Understanding the World,
Technology, People and
Communities
We all will:
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continue to notice the weather
change and know what the seasons
are.
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to notice different homes e.g
terraced house, flat, caravan etc
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to notice similarities and differences
when exploring homes around the
world
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to know the names of some animals
homes e.g burrow, pond, sea, jungle,
tree etc
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an estate agent will visit the children
to discuss their job and
different homes
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learn their address and
experience posting a letter home
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listen to a police officer who will talk
to the children about stranger danger
following Hansel and Gretel
Teachers
Nursery Mrs Rundle (EYFS Leader - Maternity
leave for Mrs Pearson)
RJF Miss Fairbank
RSH Mrs Hirst
PPA Miss Holden (temporary)
Support Staff
Nursery Mrs Coonan (permanent)
RJF Mrs Boylan and Mrs Short
RSH Mrs Sieradzan and Mrs Crossland
Reception Mathematics
We will:
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Count objects carefully with 1:1
correspondence
say and recognise lots of
numbers
write the numerals 0 -20
order numerals O-20
Learn new number songs
Learning days of the
week,including everyday
language related to time
Estimate how many objects they
can see then check by counting
them
Using language of size
Using familiar objects and
common shapes to create and
recreate patterns and build
models
Nursery Mathematics
This half term’s topic is:
We will:
Homes &
Animals
Physical Development
We all will:
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play games and do
activities to build up our
hand and arm muscles to help with
our pencil control
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manipulating tools such as hole
punch, stapler and sellotape
dispenser when we are building our
own homes
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make large structures
and learn den building
skills.
Creative Development
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acting out the well known
stories, Three Little Pigs, Hansel
and Gretel and Goldilocks and the
Three Bears
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Sing songs about animals
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paint pictures of animals with
increasing accuracy
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use a variety of mediums to build
homes and houses, straw, sticks,
bricks, duplo, boxes etc
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counting objects as carefully
as we can using our finger
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reciting numbers up to and
beyond 10 in the correct order.
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say and recognise numbers
1 -8
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use the language of different
colours and shapes square,
circle, triangle and rectangle
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singing counting songs like
“5 little ducks went swimming one
day” and “five little speckled
frogs”
Religious Education
‘Getting to know Jesus’
Reception will:
* Know that Jesus has a
great love for each one
of us.
*Hear that Jesus cured people who
were ill.
*Think of ways we can show our
love for people who are ill
*Begin to know that Jesus showed
that he was the son of God at the
wedding of Cana. Begin to think
about what this means for us
Nursery Will:
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join in when we sing “sing
and shout for joy” hymn
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Sit quietly in a circle with
hands together
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make the sign of the cross
and recite the morning prayer
together
Please turn over for other information
Dates for your diary
Other notices for my class
* We are now collecting for the Spring
*we will be doing a few local
Term baking fund. We
walking trips this term. Nursery *encouraging your child to
underestimated how much money we
dress independently; in
will take a trip to post their
would need for baking ingredients
letters in a near by post box.
Nursery taking off and putting (including playdough and guinea pig
Reception will take a trip to
coat on.
food) last term and ask if parents
look at houses in the local
could donate £2.50 for the Spring
area. We are asking parents to *helping to practise new
Term please. We greatly appreciate
sign a “local trip” permission
sounds and words
any amount that your family can
slip for children to attend small (reception)completing phonic donate.We bake and make playdough
trips like this more often without rocket books
on a weekly basis and both activities
staff chasing parental
are incredibly valuable for your child’s
signatures for separate walking *labelling ALL uniform, coats development. We plan to bake a
trips. Normal trips will still
and shoes
gingerbread house from Hansel and
require a separate signature as
Gretel, porridge from Goldilocks and
usual.
*sending in interesting things
the Three Bears,
for show and tell to share with vegetables in boiling water from the
*Reception Trip : Colne Valley
school friends and completing Three Little Pigs, animal shape
Museum (letter already sent)
biscuits, Gruffalo Crumble
the “What I did at home”
and scrambled snake (eggs).
sheets.
*Our canopy has now been
installed through lottery
*Please welcome Mrs Susan Coonan
*Nursery - continuing to
funding. We also have a
encourage your child to greet who is joining our Nursery Team. She
dedicated gardening planter
is a qualified nursery nurse who has
the members of staff with
which will be developed over
worked in a school nursery for many
“Good Morning Mrs …” and
the following months. If you
years. She begins at St Josephs on
have any donations you would finding their own name on the Tuesday 13th January. We also
table.
like to make e.g compost,
welcome Miss Holden who is covering
plants, time to volunteer,
Miss Fairbank’s PPA every Thursday
*Reception - please only take and Mrs Hirst’s PPA on alternate
please get in touch. We will
have a celebration launch day
the school books out of the
Wednesdays on a temporary basis.
for people involved in the EYFS book bags when you are
outdoor project including
reading with your child.
*Have you moved house recently? Do
governors and sponsors. We
you have any photographs? Would
Please return them to school
will of course invite EYFS
every day. The reason for this you be available to come into school
parents once we have a date in is because the staff hear
to help your child share their
place.
experience with their school friends?
different children read every
*If any parents have any time
to volunteer one
morning/afternoon per week on
a regular basis we would love
to hear from you. You may be
asked to listen to children read
or help out with art projects in
Reception or Nursery
depending on your child.
You can help
by...
day and we may need to
*We update our class blogs weekly so
swap your child’s book on any
you can keep up to date about what
day.
*Please send in a stamped
addressed envelope so your
child can post a letter to
themselves.
we are learning on a regular basis.
These can be accessed via the St
Joseph’s website:
www.stjosephscps.co.uk